Premiere Magazine #20

Release: Planet LV 426

Planet LV 426
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Carl Flimmer
Cast: Frank Grillo, Melissa George, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jacob Tremblay, Lulu Wilson, Jack O'Connell, Charlie Hunnam


Budget: $100,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $100,432,020
Foreign Box Office: $217,022,802
Total Profit: $65,898,182

Reaction: We are definitely pleased with the performance of this Alien sequel/Aliens prequel. While it didn't set the box office on fire, it provided the studio with a healthy profit.

"While technically telling a new story in the universe, Planet LV 426 covers a lot of familiar ground - not all of it good." - Dave Cone, New York Post

"While Anthony Russo dipped his toes in big-budget filmmaking with the Captain America sequels, he clearly is not up for making large scale movies without his brother and the ever-helpful Marvel Cinematic Universe manager Kevin Feigue holding his hand along the way. The movie is hard to follow at times and tends to lean too heavily on CGI-overload." - Clark Davis, JoBlo.com

"Planet LV 426 plays almost like a greatest hits compilation of the first two Alien movies (Alien and Aliens) - and I'm not complaining one bit." - Roger Taggart, Chicago Tribune

Breaking News

The first half of Last Resort Films' release schedule for next season has reportedly been leaked onto the internet. Most of the films have already been announced, but there are still a few surprises that had yet to be announced. Some of the surprises include Metal Gear Solid, no doubt an adaptation of the acclaimed video game, and Six Billion Dollar Man, which would appear to be an update of the Six Million Dollar Man character. The season appears to be heavy on sci-fi content with the two films mentioned above, plus Silver Surfer, Red Planet, The Prisoner and Into Thin Air. You can read the full list at https://sites.google.com/site/lrfimdb/season-3. If the leaked titles are any indication, Season 3 could be a pretty good one with a lot of big films.

Now Showing: Planet LV 426

Planet LV 426
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
Director: Anthony Russo
Writer: Carl Flimmer
Cast: Frank Grillo, Melissa George, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jacob Tremblay, Lulu Wilson, Jack O'Connell, Charlie Hunnam

Plot: On the Illium Range , Russ (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Anne (Melissa George) and their children Timmy (Jacob Tremblay) and Newt (Lulu Wilson) — are in their vehicle searching gold. Timmy is yelling to Newt about cheating at monster maze (a game the children play inside the colony's air ducts) because Newt can go in places the other kids cannot reach due to her smaller size. Anne stops the fight, before the family stumble upon a derelict spacecraft. Anne and Russ head inside to investigate, but Russ is attacked by a Facehugger. Anne calls back to Hadley's Hope, the colony, for help as Newt screams.

Russ awakens in the colony's infirmary 25 hours later while Anne, Dr. Kent (Charlie Hunnam) and sergeant Draper (Frank Grillo) check on his present condition. Timmy and Newt are not allowed in to see their father, but them to sneak through the air ducts so that they can see him. They reach a vent overlooking the infirmary, from where they observe as Dr. Kent tells Russ and Anne that more people have been sent to investigate the ship. At that moment, several of the men return, some of whom have also been subdued by Facehuggers. Suddenly, the Chestburster inside Russ emerges, killing him as Newt watches in terror. Hell breaks loose.

A few days later, Anne, Newt, Timmy and the rest of survive colonists are being moved to a sub-level storage room for safety. One of the men explains that the Xenomorphs are hunting them one by one and it is better to barricade themselves and make a stand because the Marines are on their way.
One of the colonists,tells Anne that they have located the Xenomorph's nest inside the colony's Atmosphere Processing Plant and that an armed party has been sent to kill the creatures. However, Veldman (Jack O'Connell) and Draper, the men commanding the party, soon radios in and frantically explains that there are a lot more Xenomorphs than they anticipated, and that they have discovered what has happened to the missing colonists and livestock. Then, the signal is lost.
The Xenomorphs head for the colony en masse. In the sub-basement, Anne asks another colonist for a gun, telling them that, if it comes to it, she would rather kill her own children than let the Xenomorphs take them alive. After hearing gunshots outside, one of the men insists they open the door and try to help the survivors. Against the protests of others, the barricade is opened and they find a badly injured and dying Veldman, along with the entire Xenomorph horde. The Xenomorphs pour inside the storage room and proceed to slaughter or capture everyone.Draper arrives suddenly and kills some xenomorphs before being killed. Amidst the chaos, Anne prepares to kill her children, but Timmy insists they can escape trough the air ducts. However, as they try to flee a Xenomorph Warrior attacks Anne and kills her. Timmy grabs her pistol and shoots the creature, but is hit by the acid blood that bursts from its body, killing him too. Only Newt manages to escape.
Two weeks later Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)and colonial marines arrives in a planet and find Newt.

Release: The Secret History

The Secret History
Genre: Drama
Director: Ang Lee
Writer: Clive Steinbeck
Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Ansel Elgort, Josh Hutcherson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Freddie Highmore, Alex Wolff, Ewan McGregor

Budget: $28,000,000

Domestic Box Office: $31,202,022
Foreign Box Office: $30,471,986
Total Profit: $3,131,852

Reaction: Another lower-budget film makes a small profit. Ever since the release of Share, we were interested in making another smaller budgeted film. The budget grew a bit after the hiring of Ang Lee and after Chloe Grace Moretz demanded a significant pay increase to perform a nude scene. It all still worked out though.

"Honestly, it's just really hard to care about these characters. The actors are uniformly talented, but the characters are all just very unlikable - and not in a dark and humorous, but rather in a cold and boring way." - Desmond Rodgers, TIME Magazine

"The film is really a return to form for director Ang Lee. For the past several years, he has been making films undeserving of his superb craftsmanship (Life of Pi was overrated, there, I said it). The morally confused characters give Lee a creative landscape with which to analyze the human experience." - Matthew Ellis, USA Today

"Ansel Elgort's poor performance shows once again that he really only excels at playing his usual character, but the fine performances of Timothee Chalamet, Chloe Moretz and an unusually slimy Josh Hutcherson more than make up for it." - Michael Van Patten, Slant Magazine

Now Showing: The Secret History

The Secret History
Genre: Drama
Director: Ang Lee
Writer: Clive Steinbeck
Based on the novel by Donna Tartt
Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Ansel Elgort, Josh Hutcherson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Freddie Highmore, Alex Wolff, Ewan McGregor

Plot: Richard Papen (Timothee Chalamet) leaves his small home town in California to go to Hampden College in Vermont. In Vermont, Richard tries to continue his study of Ancient Greek, only to be denied admittance to the course, as Classics professor Julian Morrow (Ewan McGregor) limits his enrollment to a tiny hand-picked group. Richard becomes obsessed with the group, observing them around campus and noting what he considers a cold attitude toward the world around them.

Eventually, Richard manages to ingratiate himself with the group by helping to solve a Greek grammar problem. Soon after, armed with advice from the group on how to impress Morrow, Richard meets with him and is finally admitted to the Classics tutorial. The group includes fraternal twins Charles (Freddie Highmore) and Camilla (Chloe Grace Moretz) Macaulay, as well as Francis Abernathy (Alex Wolff), whose secluded country home becomes a sanctuary for the group, linguistic genius Henry Winter (Ansel Elgort), an intellectual with a passion for the Pali canon, Homer, and Plato; and back-slapping Bunny Corcoran (Josh Hutcherson), a bigoted jokester.

Richard is baffled by the friendship between Henry and Bunny, which becomes more mystifying when Bunny announces that he and Henry will spend winter break together in Rome, even though Henry appears to barely tolerate Bunny, and Bunny cannot afford such an expensive vacation himself. It is soon revealed that Henry is paying for the whole trip.  Richard takes a job on campus and spends winter break, the coldest in a years, in an unheated warehouse. He nearly dies from hypothermia and pneumonia, but is taken to the hospital by Henry, who has returned early from Italy.

After winter break, Richard sees the relationship between the others and Bunny becoming even more strained. Finally, he learns the truth from Henry and Francis, that during a party, Henry accidentally killed a local farmer who lived near Francis' estate. Bunny  uncovered the truth during the trip to Italy by reading Henry's journal, and has been blackmailing the group since. The group, led by Henry, now view Bunny as a danger.

No longer able to meet Bunny's demands, and fearing that he will report them, the group decides to kill Bunny. After a drunk Bunny tells Richard about the killing, the group confronts Bunny while he is hiking and Henry pushes him down into a ravine to his death.

Charles develops a drinking problem and becomes increasingly abusive towards his sister Camilla. Francis confirms to Richard that the twins are having sexual relations. Francis himself begins to suffer panic attacks. Morrow discovers a pleading letter sent to him by Bunny, imploring him to help him. He never reports the crime, instead leaving the faculty.

Henry begins living and sleeping with Camilla, which drives Charles further into alcoholism. When Charles is arrested for drunk driving incident with Henry's car, Henry fears Charles will let something slip to the police. Charles, jealous of Henry, barges into Camilla and Henry's hotel room and tries to kill Henry with Francis' pistol. Henry gets hold of the gun. The others in the group pile on him, and Charles ends up shooting Richard in the abdomen. Henry kisses Camilla farewell and shoots himself in the head. His suicide leads the police to believe that Henry shot Richard, legally saving Charles.

With Henry's death, the group disbands. Francis attempts suicide, and even though he is gay, is forced by his rich grandfather to marry a woman in order to gain his inheritance. Charles is sent to rehab, but runs away with a married woman. Richard, after recovering from his wounds, becomes a lonely academic with an unrequited love for Camilla.

In Development

Red Planet: Rounding out the ensemble cast of the Josh Trank-drected, Dwight Gallo-penned sci-fi film, Red Planet, will be Michelle Monaghan ("The Path", Patriots Day), Connie Nielsen (Wonder Woman, Stratton) and Stanley Tucci (Beauty and the Beast, Transformers: Age of Extinction). Monaghan will play a doctor and mission specialist, Nielsen will play the Mars orbiter pilot, and Tucci will play the mission's commander.

Gorky Park: Brian De Palma's latest directorial effort has just secured the acting services of Ciaran Hinds (Justice League, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alan Tudyk (Salem's Lot, Trumbo) and Hugo Weaving (Hacksaw Ridge, The Dressmaker). Hinds will play a KGB agent, Weaving will play Joel Edgerton's supervisor, and Tudyk will play a professor who aids in Edgerton's investigation.

The Prisoner: Christopher Nolan's latest mysterious sci-fi film has landed three more talented actors. Nicholas Hoult (Rasputin, Equals), Elizabeth Olsen (Wind River, Captain America: Civil War) and Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer, Sabotage) have all joined the film. Hoult will play Liam Neeson's son, Williams will play Neeson's wife, and Olsen will play a potential love interest of Tom Hardy's.

Dracula Lives: The sequel to the first film released by Last Resort Studios, Dracula Origins, is finally getting set to shoot. The film was delayed after Scott Derrickson decided to direct Share and the studio decided to wait for him instead of hiring a different director. The film is set to follow some of the same territory as Bram Stoker's original novel. Oscar Isaac is the only actor returning from the first film. Joining him will be Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Every Secret Thing) and Michael Fassbender (Atlas Shrugged, Assassin's Creed). Ridley will play play Mina Harker, the possible reincarnation of Vlad/Dracula's dead wife (played in Dracula Origins by Camilla Belle). The studio considered bringing Belle back to play Mina, but ultimately decided to go in a different direction (although Belle could still appear in possible flashbacks as she did sign on for a sequel). Fassbender, meanwhile, has been cast as Abraham Van Helsing. The deal with Fassbender is reportedly wide-reaching and could result in him popping up in other monster movies as well as his own spin-off film.

Into Thin Air: Last Resort Films has just optioned the latest script from writer James Morgan, Into Thin Air. The story is reportedly about a criminal who uses time travel to get rich. Tim Roth (600 Miles, Selma) will play the thief, while Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic, The Two Faces of January) has been cast as an FBI agent on the case. Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation) has been tasked to direct the film.

The Informers: Elizabeth Wood (White Girl) has been given the task of directing an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' short story collection, The Informers. Lon Charles wrote the script which will depict the interconnected lives of several people in Los Angeles: rich kids, rock stars, vampires and kidnappers are among the group. Blake Jenner (The Edge of Seventeen, Everybody Wants Some!!), Logan Lerman (Every Secret Thing, Indignation), Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) and Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some!!, "Scream Queens") will play a group of young, rich kids in the film.